Padma Kaimal headshot
Past Member

Padma Kaimal

Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies; The Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

History of South Asian Art
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Padma Kaimal will be reading an eighth-century Hindu temple from the city of Kanchipuram in southern India. In the monument’s visual and physical languages, she sees gendered metaphors teaching visitors of the mutual dependence between things that may seem to be opposites.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
1988
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
B.A.
1979

Appointments

Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
1988–pres
Assistant, then Associate, Professor
Vanderbilt University
1987–1988
Visiting Lecturer